Thursday, October 14, 2010

A year in the making. Last year I held a Halloween Block Swap. Each person picked a Halloween item. They made twelve of the themed blocks and twelve 9 Patch blocks using two colors. In the end you would have 24 blocks, a nice lap size quilt. I however was lucky enough to also receive some blocks from some of the members of the other groups. My quilt is almost a king!!It was a beautiful day outside so since I had no where in the house to take a picture of the whole quilt, I went outside.Even being outside I was not able to get it all!!

Those who have read my blog for a while know I do not machine quilt, but I enjoy hand quilting. I was presented with the problem of how to quilt this baby??!! The 9 patches were no problem. I decided to treat each individual block as if it were a quilt. On some of the blocks I did a random design, some in the ditch and some ¼ outlined.

Oh Jane! I want to make one (or a few) of these sooo bad. I think your idea of a swap is wonderful (you know how I love block swaps) What was the time frame of the bee? If you were to do it again would you change the way it was set-up? Karie